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December 2020

Discernment Counseling: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Maybe you’ve been there, or maybe you’ve heard about it from a friend, or could all too easily imagine it: sitting in the therapist’s office with your partner, one of you desperately wanting to save the marriage and the other person… not. Not committing to the marriage, not committing to the therapy work, but also not asking for a divorce. The therapist is struggling, perhaps bargaining with one spouse to commit to working on the relationship for a few sessions. After a reluctant agreement, therapy begins and it doesn’t really go anywhere. Eventually the therapist recommends individual therapy to help each person better understand what they want, which is unlikely to help the relationship since each therapist only has one side of the story. (While individual therapy alongside couples therapy can help improve the marriage, alone it often does not solve the couples’ relationship issues.) This type of couple is a “mixed-agenda couple.” It’s where one person is leaning in and one person is leaning out of the relationship.

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